2026 DESC Sprint Week at Sorbonne Université and SLAC (hybrid)

Dates: Oct 26 - 30, 2026

More information, including the full schedule, the registration form, and sprint proposal form are available to DESC members in Confluence.

Schedule

Overview

Local Organizing Committee

Sorbonne: Agnès Ferté, Pierre Antilogus SLAC: John Franklin Crenshaw, Rebecca Chen, Shun-Sheng Li, Alex Broughton

DESC Sprint Coordinators

Arun Kannawadi (Duke), Erwin Lau (Nara Women’s University)

Locations

Research Office Building (48), Fred Kavli Building (51), and Science & User Support Building (53), SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025 A map of meeting rooms at SLAC is available here.

LPNHE at Sorbonne Université in Paris. LPNHE is a Sorbonne Université lab located on the Jussieu campus here in Paris. More information about the meeting rooms will be shared closer to the date.

Registration

No registration fee will be charged. N.B. The meeting will have limited capacity and preference will be given to DESC members who are contributing, or plan to contribute, to DESC projects.

This will be a hybrid meeting: The opening and closing sessions can be attended via Zoom, and Zoom rooms will be available for remote sprints or participation in sprints with in-person attendees. Remote attendees must register.

All attendees are required to agree to abide by the DESC Meeting Code of Conduct.

Contact us

Please post questions on the #desc-sprint-week channel on LSST DA Slack.